introduction
Fizmez Exemplar Map is a freeware, open source geographic data visualisation tool. It is written in C# and is GPL, meaning that it is free to distribute and use.
download
-
fizmezExemplarMap-v0.8.9.exe
(Microsoft Windows) -
fizmezExemplarMap-v0.8.9.zip
(Linux/Mac)
These packages contain: source, UK data, documentation, binaries:
New in 0.8.9
- Code tidied from ~180 to ~110 FxCop complaints - GPS fixes for toolbar offset - Spelling errors corrected - AssemblyVersionAttribute added - General code tidying - Mono Layer.Load() speedup (by local attribute reduction to <64 and much string compare improvement and using Exemplar Profiler to visualise mono --profile) - When zooming out beyond edge of world, now get nice grey background
Requirements:
- Most Windows users will need the Microsoft .Net Runtime.
- If you are unsure whether you have this installed, try TMG Development's free version checker.
Linux/Mac users:
- Unzip onto you machine
- Install Mono ('yum install mono-complete' on Linux).
- Install gdipluslib. ('yum install gdipluslib' on Linux)
- cd bin
- mono program.exe
documentation
Documentation is included in the download. The installer will prompt you to read the documentation on running the installer. Once the software is installed, it can be accessed via the Start menu (in Windows) or clicking on docs/index.html.
overlay data
Due to the sheer quantity of data, and the specialised usage of each, we only include a UK Postcodes (source) overlay with the download, just to get you going. However, there is plenty of other public data out there suitable for overlays. Here are some of our favourites. Please submit more to the forum, and get your name in lights!
- Capital Cities (source)
- Airports worldwide (source)
- UK Speed Cameras / Safety Cameras (source)
- US Zip Codes (source)
- US Places (source)
- US Counties (source)
To use overlay data, right click these files and save them in:
- c:\program files\exemplar map\data\overlay\ (Windows)
- $INSTALL_DIR/data/overlay (Linux / Mac)